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Just been notified by the host that alpha-lyrae has been subject to at least 10 hack attacks in the last week! Who cares enough about my silly astro site to do that?
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I attempted to work out how self-hosting a website work when I was a teenager. Used a mk1 raspberry pi with apache2 server and worked out how to make it public (albeit only via ip address not with a URL)
It only had a few photographs on it and some wacky CSS layout and basically 0 content. It got turned into a botnet component which I only discovered when people in my house started getting captchas when trying to use google haha.
I think the most common and basic attacks are automated, just try sites and addresses at random for common vulnerabilities like default passwords and default configurations of popular software like apache2 hoping to gain easy access to one of the millions of machines hosting amateur or small business machines to do botnet dirtywork.
Suffice to say the internet is a dangerous place!
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